Spotfire® Web Client User Guide

Using search expressions in shareable links

You can incorporate a search expression in a spotfire or tibcospotfire link to assist others finding suitable analyses or data.

About this task

See Links to analyses in the library for more information about shareable links. The links are a list of keys and value pairs. The key and value are separated using colon, :, and each key and value pair are also separated with colons:
tibcospotfire:<key1>:<value1>:<key2>:<value2>...<keyN>:<valueN>

The following keys and values are allowed:

Search: <search expression> with optional parameters. See Searching the library for more information about possible searches.

OrderBy : Title | Modified | Created | Accessed | ContentSize | Description

MaxResult: <positive integer>

SortDirection: Ascending | Descending

The values should be encoded using the following pattern:
Value Encoded to
: \:
" \'
\ \\
Examples:
tibcospotfire:search:*:OrderBy:Modified:SortDirection:Descending:MaxResult:20
tibcospotfire:search:modified\:<\'3 days ago'\:OrderBy:Modified:SortDirection:Descending